CHARLESTON — In 2015, an alliance group consisting of pharmaceutical distributors worked with a consulting firm in an attempt to “turn the tide” by offering a “carrot” to media in
Homer Hickam, the West Virginia native whose "Rocket Boys" memoir was adapted into the film "October Sky," has been added to the list of featured speakers for this year s West
Five days a week for 26 years, Charleston lawyer Tim DiPiero walked into work where heâd see his friend and colleague Sean McGinley, whom he remembered as a gifted attorney with âa keen sense of right and wrong and seeking justice.â
An Interstate 79 crash Thursday killed McGinley near the Frametown exit in Braxton County. He was returning from a hearing in Morgantown. He was 55.
McGinley served as counsel to The Charleston Gazette and, later, the Gazette-Mail during a sparkling legal career spanning 30 years. He was a partner at DiPiero Simmons McGinley & Bastress PLLC, in Charleston.
âSean was a brilliant lawyer,â DiPiero said. âJust amazingly talented. . He would always improve any draft of writing I did. He could always make it better. He was incredible at research and writing, and just had a way with words.
Analysis: There’s nothing funny about an addiction crisis
By Eric Eyre, Senior Investigative Reporter at Mountain State Spotlight
When I read the email, it made me cringe.
A lawyer representing a county in West Virginia that’s suing the nation’s largest drug distributors for their role in the opioid crisis grilled a senior executive with AmerisourceBergen about the decade-old email message in federal court Thursday.
The email reveals that while drug overdoses were surging in West Virginia, top executives at AmerisourceBergen, ranked number 10 in the Fortune 500, were having a laugh at our expense. The internal company email features the lyrics to a parody song sung to the tune of “The Beverly Hillbillies” theme that ridicules “pillbillies” addicted to OxyContin.